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Easy HTML-DB Oracle Application Express : Create Dynamic Web Pages with OAE (Easy Oracle Series)

Format: Paperback
Author: Michael Cunningham
ReleaseDate: 15 April, 2006
Publisher: Rampant Techpress
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A clear and concise coverage of basic functionality
It tells the reader lots of useful stuff and omits the more esoteric and advanced functionality. This is a good book for the new or beginner application express developer.

The authors approach is to tell the reader what they are going to show, why they are going to show it and how it may be useful in the wider context, then they go ahead and demonstrate it.
Thus the relevance of the text is pretty good.

I feel that the books is best read cover-to-cover (not necessarily working through the examples on the first pass) so that the reader can get a good feel for the product and to give a good insight on how application express can and should be used (at least by the beginning user) The book is easy to read and flows well.

Throughout there are useful snippets, such as how to set the max length for a tabular form column; they are often presented almost as throw-away lines so are at times, in my opinion, a bit too easy to miss. In addition, you can find references to checkboxes and radio buttons in the index.

I could not give the book 5 stars because I am uneasy about technical books which do not explicitly give readers the means to contact the authors or publishers with feedback. No wonder the errata for this book is empty. There are at least a dozen errors, mainly issues with spelling, grammar, layout and misleading explanations. Also, for some reason the authors departed from their usual approach when they wrote the section on collections. The detail presented looks useful, but it is presented with no reference to where and how it can be used practically.
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Best of breed coverage for the working developer
The Oracle Press book spews silliness about how HTML-DB is like . I bough this HTML-DB book and the Oracle Press one and there is no real comparison.NET and other off-base text that makes it look like that don't use APEX every day.

This book is clearly written by APEX developers and it has sample code to show how to implement difficult HTML-DB constructs like repeating update lists and advanced security.

I really needed a good reference and this is the one to buy.
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Good Topics Coverage
But the book is excellent and covers all topics I wanted. I had the same delivery delay problem and I finally received it last week.